How to Install RainLoop Webmail on Ubuntu 18.04

RainLoop Webmail is a simple, modern, and fast web-based email client. Written in PHP, RainLoop provides an easy way to check your emails using your web browser. It comes with full support of IMAP and SMTP protocols (SSL, STARTTLS), sieve scripts support, integration with Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Dropbox, a multi-level caching system, plugins support, keyboard shortcuts support, and many other additional features.

The installation is quite simple. If you follow our instructions carefully, you can finish the RainLoop Webmail installation in less than 10 minutes. Let’s get started.

The owner of the files needs to be the user of the web server running on your system. In our example, we are using the Apache web server and Apache runs under the “www-data” user on Ubuntu. To change the owner of the files, you can then run the following commands:

cd /var/www/rainloop
chown -R www-data:www-data .

Step 3: Configure Apache/Nginx

In this step, we will show you how to create a virtual host file in Apache or Nginx – the procedure depends on which web server you have running on your system. This is so that you can access your RainLoop installation from your browser.

Step 4: Accessing RainLoop Webmail

To access your RainLoop Webmail admin panel, open your browser and enter http://webmail.mydomain.com/?admin (replace this with the actual domain name you used in your web server configuration).

The default admin login credentials are:

Username: admin
Password: 12345

You will be taken to the RainLoop admin panel, from which you can manage your RainLoop setup and configure your email server settings. It is also highly recommended to change your admin password as soon as you log in.

If you followed the steps correctly, then you should have a successful copy of RainLoop Webmail running on your server.

Of course, you don’t have to install RainLoop Webmailon Ubuntu 18.04 if you have an Ubuntu VPS with us. You can simply ask our support team to install RainLoop Webmail on Ubuntu 18.04 for you. They are available 24/7 and will be able to help you with the installation.

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